Richard Stallman writes: "The BBC invited me to write an article for their column series, The Tech Lab, and this is what I sent them. (It refers to a couple of other articles published in that series.) But the BBC was unwilling to publish it with a copying permission notice, so I have published it here."

This just reads like a cross between a blog post and a manifesto. It's not a news article; it's too brash even for an opinion piece because you set out your 'vision of the world' with such bold rhetoric. This isn't about the BBC's biases, it's about yours.

It isn't that the BBC won't publish it, or at least if I understood the article submission correctly. BBC was unwilling to publish it with a copying permission notice It is that they won't publish it with a a statement permitting copying.I don't think it has anything to do with being warm and fuzzy or with bashing DRM, it is just that they won't publish it with permission to copy it. I can understand that position to a degree too. They asked for it to be authored for it's publication/program/whatever and ar

I suspect that the GBP and most Americans won't give a damn about their own privacy until things get much, much worse. Perhaps when corporations begin sending their own private "security forces" to bring people in for "questioning". Perhaps not even then.

I hope the reason we'd send that crapware to Alpha Centauri "at the slowest possible speed" would be so that they'd be unlikely to ever get it over there, or so that it would be really really outdated in comparison to Centauriware. But I don't see why we would take the chance that anybody would get stuck with it.

...btw, would Centauriware release alpha builds or would they go straight into beta?